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...opposed splitting Germany into bits & pieces (he advocated "slight dismemberment" into a North and a South German State, and an international Ruhr zone...
Here Is Hugo. In the British-occupied zones, the blow fell on German industrialists. In a sweeping move to denazify the Ruhr industries, the Control Council arrested 40 leading officials of the powerful Rhine-Westphalian coal syndicate. Biggest fish in the British net: Tycoon Hugo Stinnes, 48, son of Germany's onetime greatest financier and powerful figure in the Ruhr coal and steel industries. Said the British: "Such men represent the worst in Germany . . . never hesitated to use their vast power to support dubious political movements . . . assisted in the growth of the National Socialist Party...
...similar feeling was broadcast by Berlin Communist Leader Walter Ulbricht. Said he: the "united front" program for a democratic, anti-fascist Germany should be adopted "from the Oder to the Ruhr, from Mecklenburg to Wiirttemberg." This was far beyond the Russian zone. It was also something for the Potsdam parley (see INTERNATIONAL) to ponder upon...
Help from Germany? Unable to do the job themselves, all these nations are looking to Germany's coal-rich Ruhr to do it for them. (What Russia intends to do with the coal in her part of Germany she has so far kept to herself.) The Ruhr mines were little damaged, but the Allied Coal Headquarters set up to run the mines will have to find manpower (the Nazis employed 160.000 slave workers in the Ruhr) and provide housing and food for the miners, now getting only 1,000 to 2,200 calories a day (requirement for men engaged...
...Much? Nevertheless, coal is being dug. The Army Service Forces, busily fixing up the railroads and clearing the canals, soon hope to have them in shape. As yet, Ruhr production is small-only 500,000 tons of low quality coal (brown coal or lignite) a month. But the Allies hope to boost this to 3,500,000 tons 'of hard coal and 2,500,000 tons of brown coal by Christmas. While this is far less than Germany's prewar production in the Ruhr (9,000,000 tons of hard coal and 4,000,000 tons of brown...